The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-10
THE OLD SOUTH.
GEN. HILLS ADDRESS 70 THE con
FEDERATE SOCIETY.
Love for the Constitution Of the United
States.
A Tribute to Men Who Held Millions at Bay

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ID. III. HILL delivered an address on
''Tbe Old South" before the Con-
federate Society at Foad's Opera
house. The house was crowded and
the applause was hearty and fire.
quent. The address was a lengthy
one. The concluding part of it was
upon the effects of the war. 1t was
as follows:
would place first of these the
general diffusion of love for the con-
s.itu:ion of the United States. Time
was when the south-hating phIlan-
thropIsts denounced it as ca covenant
with death and a league with hell"
gotten up by the slave power IN the
interests Of slavery. But in 1851 the
phi anthrOpists experienced a change
of heart, and ever since have talked
Of the constitution as that "sacred
instrument" that 'bulwark Of free
DOM" that palladium of liberty"
ETC., etc. am glad of their con-
versiOn-suspiciOusly sudden though
it was-and | hope that they will
never fall from grace. AS a stall
wart Presbyterian, l believe in the
perseverance of the saints. The
philanthropists used to tell of the
cruelty and brutality of shareholders
to their slaves, and SAID that they
had reduced the negroes to the lows
est state of ignorance, barbarism
and beastia'ty.
But in the reconstruction period
the philanthropistS underwent radi-
cal change of views and discovered
that these negroes, whom they had
described as more savage and de-
; graded than the barbariAns on the
Congo, were not merely enlightened
and civilized enough to be freedmen
t and voters. but also to be United
States senators and congressman,
: foreign ministers, cOnsuls and mar
: shals, governors Of states, judges
S members Of state cabinets, etc.
am glad that the phllanthropists
found out that the old south haC
trained its slaves so carefully fol
these high and responsible duties
s No other masters In the worlds history
f ever gave such training to theiI
= slaves. The thirteenth, fourteenth
e and fifteenth amendments to the
n constitution OF The United States are
3. the grandest possible eulOgies of the
= old south, But there was one grea
error in this training. The simple
h hearted. confding southern masters
e always careless of their own money
h did not teach their slaves to be eau
v tious about their investments, anC
Is tens of thousands of these credulOu
creatures put their money in a banl
in Washington, established by tn
= philanthrOpIsts and lost 1t all.
= 1 love to here the praises of tn
wonderful deeds of Mcclellan, Gran
Meat e and Hancock, for If the
were such great warriors for cru sh
- ing, with their massive columns, tn
! thin lines of ragged rebels, wha
= must be said of Lee, the two John,
= stons, Beanregard and jackson
r who held millions at bay for fOu
- years with their fragments of shad
= owy armies. Pile up huge pedes
tails and surm0unt them with bronz'
ALI the union monuments are elC
+ quent of the ragged rebels and thei
IF leaders. Suppose the tables ha
= been turned, and that either of tt
:, FIVE southerners named above ha
q been superior to his antagonists ]
~ all tie appliances and inven tions {
Or war, and had been gwen morrow
"A an excess of 10000 of men owe
"a them, how many statues, think y
my countrymen, would there be I
bronze warriors and prancin
chargers?
The congressman from the Of
. south have voted literally for all Il
III climate pension bills to union We
Grams, for they know what a tOug
job it was for the 1859, 132 unio
= soldiers, with their magnificent on
'ls fit, to overcome the 700, 900 rebel
poorly fed poorly clothed and poor
- equipped. These pension bills al
- splendid tributes to the pluck, pa
i0 thence, perseverance, and forttude
. the old south.
1 love to hear the philanthropis
q praise Mr.. Lincoln and call him th
~ second Washing ton, for L rememb,
" that he was born in Kentucky an
* was from first to last, as the Altar
u tic Monthly truly said, a souther
% man in all his characteristics. Hoy
to hear them say that George II
" Thomas was the stoutest fighter j
the union army, for remembe
that he was born in Virginia. Whe
:" the old lady OF the south hears thes
- eulogies upon these men Sue pushe
II
= back her spectacles that she ma,
Is have better view OF the eulogisti
and saws. q Those were nv children.